Countryside Estates, WV
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.98 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.
About Countryside Estates
Countryside Estates serves about 375 people through 144 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Portage County, West Virginia. EPA system ID: OH6704712; phone on file: 304-291-3380. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
That is up 3.98 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Countryside Estates is 3.98 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3.98 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 3 ppb |
| 2018 | 1 ppb |
How Countryside Estates compares
Of the 408 West Virginia systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 0.9 ppb; 4 are over 15 ppb right now and 20 have gone over at some point. Countryside Estates's 3.98 ppb sits at the 90th percentile in West Virginia and the 87th nationally (higher means more lead).
Next steps for Morgantown, WV
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Morgantown, WV may offer free or low-cost kits through the utility. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Countryside Estates whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do.
These figures describe homes the utility sampled, not your tap. Only your service line record or a test of your own water answers the question for your house. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.